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EF1 tornado in Itawamba County, Mississippi

Tornado June 5, 2024 · Itawamba County, Mississippi

EF1
Rating
3.4 mi
Whole path
300 yd
Path width
$10K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Itawamba County → Marion County, Alabama; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A weak tornado touched down causing intermittent tree damage from Pate Road in southern Itawamba County, MS, northeast to County Highway 94 in Marion County, AL. Maximum winds were estimated at 95 mph.

The wider storm

A mesoscale convective vortex moved across the Mid-South during the late afternoon and early evening on June 5, 2024. This feature interacted with a moist and unstable airmass to produce scattered thunderstorms across northeast Mississippi. Surface-based convective available potential energy values of 3000 J/kg and precipitable water values around 1.75 inches resulted in flash flooding, isolated damaging wind, and a weak tornado.

Began near Tremont (34.1645, -88.2121).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1192620. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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